BlueOak

When you ignore them you run right into them, or they into you.

https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/?intent=121 The climate has been heating up for a couple of hundred years. There is demonstrable evidence. Not only the fact I've lived through 45 years of it and its got warmer and warmer. https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/ You'd be better off arguing something like: We've already screwed up the planet who cares or. Its going to take a couple of hundred years to fix, so why bother? More people will agree because they only value their own experience of life. To argue that it isn't warming up at this point is quite frankly insane. I have no other way to put it to you. It's getting hotter all the time, we get no snow here we used to get 3 weeks of it. We had a 40-degree year here which is unheard of. The temperature graphs are significantly higher. You could say: We are not responsible, its just getting hotter. OR we have no power to change anything. Some people like that line because they can ignore it, but to say the climate itself isn't changing is completely false.

Authoritarians love to do what they say their opponents are doing. Its the standard Russian playbook that he's using.

Democracies are often on a scale. The US will certainly slide more authoritarian. Its been doing so for a couple of decades. Trump and his team have said that's their goal.

On the macro I think I concern myself too much with the truth of something and not lying, so that is what I focus on. Its always been a cornerstone that I've needed in life. So maybe it helps to be exposed to constant lies for years on end.

The dark humor will be all the deportations and any trump voters that voted themselves into another country. A bit like Brexit and people voting to make their lives more difficult overseas or in transport industries, then moaning about it for years.

Mostly because he says it a lot. You are right. Trump just says whatever is in his head at that moment, or someone told him and he fixated on.

Sorry I moved the post to the main thread, but I agree. For reference for others: I said I personally hate that I have to deal with 4 years of conspiracy theories and made up fairytales that filters into everything including every day life.

Ukraine is lost with Trump in. Europe and Russia are much closer to war. China and Trump I can't read. He dislikes China more than Russia and will antagonise them but aligns more with their politics.

For you because you align more with his views. I wouldn't get a single comment out.

My comments have been shadow-banned on youtube for 10 years. Its a platform that is heavily regulated.

Time is the key factor in creating and reinforcing a sense of self. This is why an AI has none because it only processes things in milliseconds, whereas a human considers topics for hours or sometimes longer, holding a state of mind that then creates a sense of self and relation to what is in focus. This is why children have none to start with. This is why older adults' identities become rigid, and their brains less malleable. We create a perceived distance from ourselves to things with continued thought. We create a shattered sense of self when we lack time for sleep and processing. We create less self-reflection when we are overloaded with multiple tasks and little time to accomplish them, because there is no time to consider what is in focus, and so we just act. When we spend a long time focusing on something, we can develop a strong identity around it. This is why: A Calmer Approach helps someone lacking self-identity in relation to a subject or topic. An Action-orientated approach helps someone with a rigid self-identity in relation to what they are doing.

True. The memory is where the sense of self is stored by defining a relation to the subject being focused on. It is the amount of time something is considered that allows a relation to it to develop, and then that sense of self is only acted upon when that focus is maintained. Without time, there is no time for a sense of self to exist. We have to dedicate time to our'self' for it to exist.

No you are everything. To experience the universe you have created your'self'. This allows for the illusion of distance and experience.

I struggle to live and most of us do on the bottom end of the UK's financial pyramid. Right now, I can't afford a good night's sleep, so I've got insomnia. I mean, I can't afford anything near where I work, so I either switch jobs again and then look for a flat, or I bike into work because the trains are unreliable and the buses are nonexistent. Yes England sucks now. Compared to 20 years ago it's a dive. Banks got away with pillaging people in 2008, so much so they went right back to doing it. Covid and finally Brexxit putting the knife in what was left. And yet people have learned very little, some but not much. They are still electing further right people who want to keep wrecking things for us, looking inward and cutting ties. That's not how to expand, that's how to contract an economy.

The connection to AI is a way to increase the permanence of anything. It's an upgrade of the modern day written word, when people started recording things in books for others. AI can do this in a way no other can. I would highly advise people to embrace this feature of AI. I have realised, in time, it may even allow other incarnations of you to reconnect with aspects of this life in detail, so they know their own event/behavioral cycles in more depth. It will certainly transform our understanding of how society and individuals are linked together and the cyclic nature of life. To me that is the AI singularity people speak of, it is the connection the AI is giving you that will transform people/society, not the fact an AI with hyperintelligence exists. The greatest question/answer machine is the universe already with infinite intelligence, and that is always available to you, every answer to every problem/question/situation you'll ever have comes to you in time.

Back on topic: Doctors without borders is a useful charity. https://msf.org.uk/ Better than the politically charged Amnesty International for example. Tackling these issues: Making people more conscious of the opposing position and meeting a closer parity. Listening to it brings you closer to a mutual synchronization of both. This means that you can work together rather than kill each other. Finding platforms that put both together equally is essential for removing echo chambers. To raise their consciousness to the point that when they shoot someone, they are shooting themselves. Slowly working on reducing zero-sum games from the global collective would go a long way, and continuing to work on getting us off fossil fuels entirely. I had a couple more but I am tired and my mind has blanked :), working on any of these in any capacity. Obviously climate change is linked to the zero sum game, and the authoritarian swing universally has not helped at all to reduce border conflicts, the opposite its made people much more rigid and demanding about their borders. But people need to experience this for longer to accept it, which is linked to immigration, racism, climate change migration, maintenance of corporate billionaires, etc.

Why does it matter where the guns come from if people are still going to shoot them? (Other than to put power in someone else's hands on global security or territorial ambition/sovereignty.) It would be no better if I flipped this and said, that state-owned Russian companies manufacture lots of weapons and ship them around the globe, and those companies are either not talked about or state-owned. They'd still be the second biggest arms manufacturers on the planet. To me this is on the level of. Drugs are bad, let's target the dealers. It's one level above the symptom in the supply chain, but it's still not the cause or the main reason it's being supplied. It's supplied and allowed because countries play zero-sum games, and some of those people in positions of wealth take a tidy profit off death. In the drug analogy. Without as many dealers, people are still going to get drugs, and the people are still going to be shipping them in on mass, but we've taken out mid-level dealers and upped the price for a collective behavior that still exists, and a need that will still be met. Now what. Plus those dealers that still exist will have even more influence over the market and all its related effects.

What are some successes you've had getting a good night's sleep with a noisy flatmate? Any suggestions are welcome, if you've a particular product that's worked for you that would be appreciated.

Thank you all. I've done some of these, spoken to them, molded my own sleeping patterns slightly, and bought foam earplugs. I've also got some of these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CHHS8TCQ Which I have to say blocks out most noise, if it gets noisier you turn up the volume, and it can link via Bluetooth to your phone. Some of the noise-canceling stuff I like here too, and I am buying tapestries to put around the walls. Thanks all. I am fatigued and really felt it today at work but trying to adapt. Both houses I frequent (one for my business and one for sleep) and store stuff are currently in chaos of different sorts. It might be me telling myself to stop being cheap and rent a place I can do both in. Also interested in this: Might give it a shot.

As an example if you have a choice between working 60 hours, or missing a big job but seeing your family, both of them bring a certain level of contrast and a potential mood swing, Missing the job might cost you a great client to a competitor, and missing the family you might miss a heartfelt moment and hurt someone's feeling. That mood swing would be a perfectly natural part of life.

Success is your ability to integrate contrast, pain, and discomfort. It will bring you plenty of bad moods. It is also about choosing to become that which you are in resistance, to or choosing to become something else. There is no exact choice and no correct mood in regard to personal development.

@Keryo Koffa Warrior gods and mythical heroes. Ares, Achilles, Hercules. The worship and idealization of forms of conflict or the warriors that fight it.

Again it's not so much a difference but a refinement. The differences get more subtle. A very yellow mind can be more rigid in its reasoning, not all the way orange but it's still there. Turquoise would still contain yellow's balance of logic but inevitably balance emotion and social collaboration more closely with it. I am often Yellowish so this is a partially yellow view trying to reach inward a bit more. Stage yellow doesn't require a direct collective concurrence or collaboration, it is much more individual in nature. While it draws on everything available to it, including every relevant expert or experience, it can be made and focused solely on your own conclusion. Stage turquoise's main difference for me is it requires working with other's directly, if I could put it down in a nutshell. What I am observing in this conversation is us (when I say you I also mean me) attempting to cross from yellow to turquoise with an understanding of it, by reflecting off each other, and I use opportunities to also contribute to the collective discourse when I can. Guided by emotion and logic equally and best done in the presence of others. This is not a perfect definition or summary, but finding the collaboration easier and more free-flowing is a good sign when I am in that space. Then this is where the flaw in the thread lays. People trying to categorize something that evolves from or is already present in the other. It's indicative from what I've seen. I know when I am at my most systemic reasoning, that frame of mind necessitates a certain colder logical approach. When I am in more harmony with the group I am with, emotions come into focus more, and that alters the experience I am having.

Touch contact is good and eye contact is a clear sign, but a hug can just be friendly. I need to see her to be sure. Is she blushing, touching her hair, playing with her earrings, turning her body towards you in a group, focusing on you above all others in the group, smiling all the time etc.? Don't go the friend route, it's never a Disney movie outcome. If you are okay taking a shot with a woman who has a boyfriend, hang out, keep it casual, and see if she reciprocates. You allow space for it to happen for a short time, then if it continues and builds up ask her casually if there is something there, but don't be a friendzoned guy who is buying her everything or chasing for weeks. Friends rarely ever become lovers. But people sleep with people in relationships all the time (especially this generation), just be ready for the fallout if that's what you are doing.